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Masahiro KIMURA, Ph.D.

Professor
Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology
Ryukoku University


Email: kimura@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp
Tel: +81 77 543 7406
Fax: +81 77 543 7428
Address: Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Ryukoku University, Seta, Otsu 520-2194, Japan



Recent Papers

  • Masahito Kumano, Koki Nishimura, and Masahiro Kimura: Higher-order homophily analysis for hypergraphs with time-varying node categories, Applied Network Science, to appear.

  • Kota Hori, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Developing Ollivier-Ricci Curvature for Geometric Homophily Analysis in Hypergraphs, Complex Networks and Their Applications XIV, SCI 1264, Springer, 2026, in press.

  • Koki Nishimura, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Analyzing Higher-Order Homophily of Category Pairs in Temporal Hypergraphs, Complex Networks and Their Applications XIV, SCI 1264, Springer, 2026, in press.

  • Jose Malfeito-Ferreira, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Homophily Analysis of Higher-Order Interactions of POIs Based on People Flow Predictability from WiFi Data , Complex Networks and Their Applications XIII, SCI 1188, pp.56-67, Springer, 2025.

  • Masahito Kumano, Masaki Saito, and Masahiro Kimura: Analysis of centrality metrics for geographical road networks under topological representation, Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.40, No.1, pp.A-O62_1-11, 2025, in Japanese.

  • Masahiro Kimura and Masahito Kumano: Analysis of Geographical Influence Networks Focused on Attention Dynamics, Journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Vol.39, No.4, 496-504, 2024, in Japanese.

  • Chikashi Takai, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Analyzing Temporal Influence of Burst Vertices in Growing Social Simplicial Complexes, Complex Networks and Their Applications XII, SCI 1144, pp.3-15, Springer, 2024.

  • Masaki Saito, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Detecting Critical Streets in Road Networks Based on Topological Representation, Complex Networks and Their Applications XII, SCI 1144, pp.231-242, Springer, 2024.

  • Keisuke Uga, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Topic-Based Analysis of Structural Transitions of Temporal Hypergraphs Derived from Recipe Sharing Sites, Complex Networks and Their Applications XII, SCI 1143, pp.171-182, Springer, 2024.

  • Koudai Fujisawa, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Transition analysis of boundary-based active configurations in temporal simplicial complexes for ingredient co-occurrences in recipe streams, Applied Network Science, Vol.8, Article number: 48, 2023.

  • Koudai Fujisawa, Masahito Kumano, and Masahiro Kimura: Analyzing configuration transitions associated with higher-order link occurrences in networks of cooking ingredients, Complex Networks and Their Applications XI, SCI 1078, pp.623-635, Springer, 2023.

  • Takayasu Fushimi, Kazumi Saito, Kouzou Ohara, Masahiro Kimura, and Hiroshi Motoda: General framework of opening and closing shops over a spatial network based on stochastic utility under competitive and time-bounded environment, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Vol.11, No.1, Article number: 70, 2021.

  • Kazumi Saito, Takayasu Fushimi, Kouzou Ohara, Masahiro Kimura, and Hiroshi Motoda: Efficient computation of target-oriented link criticalness centrality in uncertain graphs, Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol.25, No.5, pp.1323-1343, 2021.


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    Last modified on: May 13, 2026.